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IEEE Spectrum covers laser uranium enrichment. I have extracted the useful technical information and left out the IEEE Spectrum extra trash talking. This site has covered the silex laser enrichment technology that is being commercialized by GE and its partners. GE has called the laser method a “game-changing technology” and along with Hitachi and Cameco …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software B9 Coal is working on combining Alkaline Hydrogen Fuel Cells with Underground Coal Gasification (UCG)to make 47% efficient coal power that has carbon capture and sequestering (versus 26% efficient with carbon capture at current plants and 28% with carbon capture at IGCC plants) [12 page pdf] …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Reinventing the Economy: Combination, complexity and value Speaker: Brian Arthur, Santa Fe Institute all of the complexity in the world has arisen from combining simpler things Economist used to have a view that the economy exists stand alone and then inventions and technology are originated (the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Diagram of a NIST ion trap that incorporates an optical fiber to collect light emitted by the ions (electrically charged atoms). Individual electrodes used to trap an ion 30 to 50 micrometers above the surface are shown in different colors surrounding a 50-micrometer-wide hole where light …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Economist Magazine indicates it is time for all of North Korea’s neighbours to start thinking of how they might together deal with some of the unthinkables they have hitherto tried hard to ignore If China cannot have a grown-up discussion with America about something as …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software New Scientist reports that BP engineers and US coastguard officials say the flow of oil into the ocean has stopped, although the well has not yet been successfully capped. Newsweek reports on the success as well Almost 19 hours after the “top kill” process of pumping …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software PC-Aero, a German aircraft design, engineering and consulting company for general and business aviation, will display its prototype electric-powered aircraft, the Elektra One, at “the electric avenue 10, the Expo for Sustainable Mobility”, in Friedrichshafen, Germany, 3-6 June. The 1-seater Elektra One is the first member …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software What looks possible by 2020 if the research from five different research groups can be combined ? Here is the five things to combine – 1. Montreal researchers have created computer controlled bacteria to make nanopyramids. Magnetic nanoparticles under computer control – determine how the cilia …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Work by the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science provides a new understanding of how high-temperature superconductors work—with potential applications toward the design of new superconductors that work at or near room temperature, allowing them to be used in everything from electronics to smart grids …
1. Guardian UK and other sources report – China sold $34bn (£21.5bn) worth of US government bonds in December, raising fears that Beijing is using its financial muscle to signal that it has lost confidence in American economic policy. US treasury figures for the period ending in December 2009 show that, following the sale, China …